[with adjective or noun modifier] a person who does a specified type of work or who works in a specified way:a farm workershe’s a good worker
an employee, especially one who does manual or non-executive work.
informal a person who works hard:I got a reputation for being a worker
(workers) used in Marxist or leftist contexts to refer to the working class:a red flag with the inscription ‘workers of the world, unite!’ [in names]:the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
2a person who achieves a specified thing:he was a bogus worker of miracles
3a neuter or undeveloped female bee, wasp, ant, or other social insect, large numbers of which do the basic work of the colony.
